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Essam Yassin Mohammed, WorldFish Director General, Named to Forbes 2025 Sustainability Leaders List
19.09.25Dr. Essam Yassin Mohammed, has been named to the 2025 Forbes Sustainability Leaders list. Now…
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IITA-CGIAR scientist named one of Africa Food Prize 2025 laureates for breakthrough in cassava and yam seed systems
04.09.25Ibadan, Nigeria – IITA–CGIAR proudly celebrates the recognition of Dr Mercy Diebiru-Ojo as o…
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CGIAR Accredited to UNEA: Bringing Food, Land, and Water Systems into Global Environmental Policy dialogues
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CGIAR, the world’s largest agricultural research partnership, has been officially accredited as an…
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World Environment Day 2025: Tackling the Global Plastic Crisis to Regenerate Our Food Systems
29.05.25Photo credit: Calf with trash; Vrindavan, India. Apercoco Since 1974, World Environment Day has mobi…
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Food Policy Priorities for A Changing World
28.05.25IFPRI’s 2025 Global Food Policy Report reflects on 50 years of progress and examines priorities…
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Gaza’s worsening food crisis and troubled path to reconstruction
27.05.25By Sara Gustafson and Rob Vos May 27, 2025 As the Israel-Hamas conflict rages on in…
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Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate
30.10.18-
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Cattle grazing on public lands near Steens Mountain, Oregon (photo credit: BLM/Greg Shine, CC BY).…
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Raw materials use tipped to nearly double by 2060, OECD report says
30.10.18-
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(Forests News) — Rising living standards and population growth will push the use of raw…
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Taking stock of Indonesia’s social forestry program
29.10.18-
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Indonesia - (Forests News) – Indonesia has an ambitious goal of giving forest-dependent communitie…
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Water rights for millions of African farmers threatened by law rooted in colonial times, study finds
29.10.18-
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Researchers at Africa Water Week call for efforts to “decolonize” and improve water permit syste…
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7th Africa Water Week
29.10.18-
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“Decolonizing” formal water law to pave the way for smallholder irrigation. An IWMI research re…
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Evaluating diverse solar irrigation systems for their scalability in India
29.10.18-
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We have rolled out the solar farming scheme. Farmers can now earn money from farming…
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AfricaRice Council of Ministers sends strong signal of commitment to drive Africa’s rice agenda
26.10.18-
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The 31st Ordinary Session of the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) Council of Ministers held recently…
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Climate-smart farmers in Cagayan Valley, Philippines graduate from school-on-the-air program
26.10.18-
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In Cagayan Valley in the Philippines, 4,645 farmers graduated from a five-month school-on-the-air (S…
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Ramsar Convention COP13
25.10.18-
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Sri Lanka wins international recognition for valuable but threatened urban wetlands.…
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Beyond oil palm: tropical trees for bioenergy and restoration of degraded lands
24.10.18-
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Indonesia - (Forests News) — To avert catastrophic climate change, fossil fuel emissions must be…
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Time to act: Air pollution is damaging our brains as well as our lungs
23.10.18-
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Air pollution has countless victims—nearly nine out of ten people across the globe breathe pollute…
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Connecting the dots for implementing Nationally Determined Contributions in agriculture
23.10.18-
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As part of the Paris Agreement, countries that have signed on have pledged to reduce…
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Policy seminar: Past, present, and future of the commons
22.10.18-
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There is a long history of common property, which we can define as resources held…
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Giving water a second life
17.10.18-
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Launch of a major project on water reuse at Cairo Water Week.…
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NEW STUDY: Sea Level Rise to Force 200,000 To Migrate from Bangladesh Coastal Areas
16.10.18-
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Washington, D.C.: Increased soil salinity, due to climate change-induced rises in sea-levels, is lik…
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A closer look at gender relations in forest landscape restoration
15.10.18-
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On this occasion of the International Day of Rural Women, Giulia Micheletti and Marlène Elias…
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Women’s hidden harvest: the AmaXhosa women and traditional culture survival practices
15.10.18-
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On the occasion of International Day of Rural Women, Dr. Katie Tavenner takes us on…
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AfricaRice Annual Report 2017 focuses on effective targeting of research to respond to stakeholder needs
11.10.18-
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AfricaRice is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report 2017, themed ‘More effective…
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